We grow a lot ourselves and go to the local Farmers' Market every month for those we don't - and some of those we do when ours run out :-) We're still eating our tomatoes but had our last runner beans last week - having eaten them almost every day since July - heaven! When our cut and come again lettuces, cucumber and other salads can't be grown I make winter salads from cabbage, carrot, beetroot, swede, celery etc.
Fruit - we rarely buy bananas. In fact apart from citrus fruits we don't buy much which can't be grown locally. In our garden we grow red, white and black currants, raspberries (two small rows provide enough for fresh, frozen and lots of jam), rose hips, medlars, a few pears from tiny trees, blackberries, a neighbour and I swap our excesses. But now that we're older our appetites have lessened and we don't want puddings.
This morning I've begun the poolish for my latest monthly batch of bread. It will be baked in the stone oven outside, which Spouse built last year and I'll be able to make enough for a month. We eat a lot of bread, at least once a day.
We manage well but it has to be thought about. planning meals becomes a challenge - what can I make with what's in stock? Tonight we'll share a venison steak, I'll be making a beef pot roast for tomorrow which will last for two or three days in various forms.
We love good food and I love growing and cooking it so it's not a chore.
Oh - and we have our own thee bantams so we have eggs from April to November. Surplus eggs will keep between those times but we don't eat many eggs as eggs. In fact mostly they're used for mayonnaise.
I'd love to do more, for instance grow and make our own flour, but we have to draw the line somewhere :-) We do buy whole animals from our farmer daughter in Wales and butcher them ourselves, last week it was a North Ronaldsay ram. His ribs lasted us three days as ribs, stew and pie, the fat will be used to make candles and the bones went to a neighbour's dog.
Most other fresh foods freeze - such as sea foods, cheeses and some vegetables.
Sorry, I've rabbited and it's nothing to do with sewing, except that when we shop we'll be using the bags I make from now :-)
Mary